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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Nadine Gordimer

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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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